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The energy sheathed hammer moves to block the blue lightning. It does not absorb it, but it manages to ward much of it off. Some measure strikes Raijin, seems to char his skin, but he doesn't even flinch.

Natsuko should feel the pain increase.

"Stand down and leave, and you all go free. No more harm. Otherwise, I see what kind of pain she can take. Maybe I kill you, the dog, keep her around a while. It'll be like a science experiment. Only even more fun."

His voice has little emotion as he speaks. But he does sound, overall, truthful.

Metta's eyes narrow. A small lightning bolt shape temporarily floats over Natsuko's head, and the pain immediately dissipates. The force lightning coming from Metta increases, now flowing off of him in waves.

As the energy beam lances toward him, Metta pulls a shield out from nowhere, and guards himself from the attack. The energy strikes the polished surface, where it seems to be absorbed. The shield glows brightly for a moment, before the exact same energy beam blasts right back at Raijin.

"To much buildup time." Metta grins and steps out of the way of the bolt of lightning.

As the afterglow from the lightning died away, Metta stood, arm incredibly stretched backward behind him. It seemed to be twisted dozens of times, taut with stored energy. "Gomu Gomu No...." His arm shot forward, incredibly fast. As it does so, the twist begins to come undone, rotating his fist into a blur.

The lightning should do little to nothing to Natsuko, as she is currently warded from electrical damage.

Metta, however, doesn't even start to dodge the blow. Instead, he drops inot a slightly lower stance. "Gomu Gomu No..." Just before the hammer strikes him, his opposite fist whips out to strike the inside of Raijin's elbow while he bends backward, underneath the blow. This should form a lever effect, and bring the large hammer around into its wielder's face.

Natsuko should be getting a good tingle now. ((Consider it to be about...90% resist Also, I hope this attack is being taken into consideration with Raijin's concentration.))

"Hey Raijin, did you know that you're about to get eaten by that Bakkottou?" He says this while taking the hits. He simply folds with them, before returning to his normal shape. He stretches both hands back, open-palmed. "Also; Gomu Gomu No..." They snap forward, with a double open-palm strike. "BAZOOKA!"

Familiar with Masato's primary means of attack, Ayame reacted immediately with a double cartwheel to one side, a move that showed off her shapely legs and dropped her back into a feather-soft landing and a ready stance. Without hardly stopping, she dove forward into a handspring flip that threw her tumbling forward through the air. Somewhere along the flip's arc, her twin Longdaggers flew into her hands, which she brought wordlessly down into a double downward smash toward Mesuinu...!

Those with sharp vision through the cloud of mist might note the peaceful smile on her face, sharply dissonant to her manifest intent...

"Ah...but here's your problem. That bolt won't be enough. She currently will survive, and I can heal her afterward. And while you make your attack..." His gaze is steel. I. WILL. KILL. YOU." His right leg extends up, incredibly high. "Gomu Gomu No..."

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention...That's not Natsuko. It's been an illusion since you stopped trying to electrocute her." His grin is...cruel. "BATLEAXE!" Metta's foot whistles downward toward Raijin, practically glowing with acceleration.

Wolfgang, meanwhile, had managed, just barely, to yank Natsuko out of the way. Instead of hitting her full on in the torso, it clipped her side. Between that, and her lightning resistance, she was in no danger of death.

Not that the burns looked very comfortable. But they were 2nd degree or less only.

Suddenly, there was a wet, weak laugh.

"Very good, boy. Very good. Excellent use of your numbers, and your powers. Perhaps if it'd just been the two of us, it would have gone diffe-ACK!"

Raijin had stood, leaning heavily on the broken haft of his hammer. His chest was half-crushed.

Then the tendrils started to consume him with true vigor.

The screams weren't pleasant.

In moments, he withered into a pile of tendrils, which in turn withered, leaving a shattered hammer on the ground, all its luster gone.

Metta blinks. "Well that was unpleasant..." He looks back to Natsuko and Wolfgang. "Are you alright Natsuko? Here, let me..." He coughs lightly. "Let me heal up..." He blinks heavily, and coughs much harder into his arm. *ahem* "Excuse me...Now then, lets get that arm healed up." He begins to kneel down, but halfway there, he starts to crumple while coughing violently. Blood spatters the ground at his knees.

He momentarily wavers in and out of consciousness. His hat, armor, and all the watches vanish. He coughs again as he flickers back to himself. "Ow." He hacks again, spitting out a gob of blood.

Familiar with Masato's primary means of attack, Ayame reacted immediately with a double cartwheel to one side, a move that showed off her shapely legs and dropped her back into a feather-soft landing and a ready stance. Without hardly stopping, she dove forward into a handspring flip that threw her tumbling forward through the air. Somewhere along the flip's arc, her twin Longdaggers flew into her hands, which she brought wordlessly down into a double downward smash toward Mesuinu...!

Those with sharp vision through the cloud of mist might note the peaceful smile on her face, sharply dissonant to her manifest intent...

If any of the mist remained, it would disrupt her view. Since that wasn't the case, it was a simple matter for her to leap sideways while her foe was airborn to avoid the vertical strike. Using the spin of her zanpaktou's blunt end, she attempts to snap it in her wake to try to bind the girl's wrists as her attack came down. "Inept slut."